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Jessa Loomis

@jessaloomis.bsky.social
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Economic Geographer @ Newcastle University (UK) researching feminist finance, everyday (digital) economies, financial inclusion, housing 'love letters' & the politics of knowledge production // northeast (US) to North East (UK)

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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What is a housing 'love letter' and how and why is it being used by prospective homebuyers? In this new paper with @lukegreen.bsky.social we argue that these personal letters are market devices through which buyers seek advantage in an increasingly unequal housing system doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Thrilled to share this new article co-authored w/ Abbie Hardcastle on 'The Everyday Geographies of Cryptocurrency: crypto-masculinities, crypto-futures, and gendered financial subjectivities.' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Everyday geographies of cryptocurrency: crypto-masculinities, crypto-futures and gendered financial subjectivities in the United Kingdom
Drawing on feminist scholarship on money and finance and ­geographical scholarship on everyday life and masculinities, this article examines the promises and futures that investment in and use of c...
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
📣 Join the RGS Economic Geography Research Group (EGRG) for the first in our 'Emerging Voices in Economic Geography' webinar series on Thursday, 20 Nov at 1pm GMT/8am ET featuring Ifigeneia Dimitrakou & Tim White who will each discuss their work on Housing. Register here: lnkd.in/ehK_MG_M
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Newcastle Geography is now on Bluesky! Follow the department to hear about what's new, what we're excited about, and all the great research and teaching that keeps us busy! @ncl-geography.bsky.social And a starter pack of NCL geographers go.bsky.app/GEt9bGr
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
A wonderful piece by my colleague @alisonstenning.bsky.social that highlights children's right to the city and right to play.
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Caitlin Henry and I were recently interviewed for this story based on our research into private equity investment in healthcare which explores whose sickness provides profit, where and how care is provisioned, and what impacts this form of investment has on the quality of healthcare and life.
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
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Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New Online 1st Book Review “Outside the Law, But Inside Capital: Tracing Profit in Everyday Economies” by Araby Smyth and Jessa Loomis doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The BNPL story on 'cute debt' in The Atlantic also featured on Marketplace (min 16:34).
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Do you use buy-now-pay-later services? Dr @jessaloomis.bsky.social comments on the rise of so-called 'Cute Debt' and how it is mainly female shoppers who are being pushed towards these services >> bit.ly/4lMdVXo
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The Rise of ‘Cute Debt’
Female shoppers are being pushed toward buy-now-pay-later services.
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment technologies are targeting young women and reconfiguring the spaces, practices & relations of digital money and finance. Very happy to have been interviewed for this story based on my research on BNPL and the geographies of consumer fintech w/ @dcockayne.bsky.social
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Postdoc researching military support chains & the environmental legacies of militarism w/ my fantastic colleague Mark Griffiths. Check it out 👇
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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Gig nursing platforms are 100% killing patients:
Text that reads: On another day, Kristin tested positive for Covid-19 and couldn’t figure out how to cancel her shift without losing attendance points (which would affect her ability to access work later in the month). She tried to no avail to get a hold of Clipboard Health as well as the facility to ask them to cancel the shift so she would not be penalized. In the end, despite being sick, Kristin showed up for the nursing job.
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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 15/04/2025
📣 USF International Fellowships 2025 - apply now! This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/funding/inte... Deadline 16th July 2025
USF International Fellowships 2025 - deadline 16th July 2025
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Consumers defer payments on 'Buy Now Pay Later' purchases, suggesting an affordability crunch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b... In our new article @dcockayne.bsky.social & I explore how fintech affects relations to payment, wages & debt. Check it out! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Geographies of Fintech and Everyday Life: Reconfiguring Spaces, Practices, and Scales of Digital Money and Finance
Financial and monetary technologies, understood both through their digital platforms and the materiality of mobile devices, are increasingly pervasive, and now shape the economic practices of individ...
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
You can add your support to the thousands contesting the threat of compulsory redundancies at Newcastle University - www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Please sign and share this petition, calling on Newcastle University’s Executive Board to halt the threat of ill-considered and unnecessary redundances that are imperilling careers and the future of our institution. www.change.org/p/end-unnece...
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Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
A note from the Editors, in solidarity with our colleagues across the sector.
TIBG Editor Statement, 2025

As editors for TIBG we acknowledge the extremely challenging circumstances facing many of our colleagues both within and outside the UK as a result of funding cuts, institutional restructuring, and redundancies. We write in solidarity with geographers and academics experiencing emotional distress and uncertainty arising from unjust university management processes and decisions.

We recognise this difficult situation may have implications for how colleagues will and can engage with TIBG. This may result in increased pressure to publish. It could also limit colleagues’ capacity to take on tasks such as journal reviewing.

We are striving to do our best for both authors and reviewers; balancing our commitments to making timely decisions on papers, whilst also recognising that some reviewers may need more time. We understand too that it will not always be possible to review a paper. If you have any concerns about a paper you have submitted for consideration in TIBG, if you need additional time to undertake a review, or would like advice around publishing in the journal, please contact us at: journals@rgs.org.
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A fantastic, collegial department (w/ the highest QS ranking in the Uni) just had the majority of Professors be threatened with redundancy. Newcastle geographers will obvi fight for our colleagues & the future of higher ed (& geography!) with all we've got, but SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY VERY WELCOME!
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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Seeing yet more stories of unis moving to compulsory redundancy, with Geography colleagues (and of course others) at risk. Today, it's Newcastle Uni, a department that produces incredible scholarship with a vibrant culture. Sharing in solidarity x www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Newcastle University compulsory job cut fears grow amid £4.2m savings shortfall
As industrial action continues, union bosses continue their plea with Newcastle University chiefs to reject any potential compulsory job losses
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The RGS Economic Geography Research Group invites submissions to our annual PhD thesis prize (deadline 31 May for PhDs completed Jan-Dec 2024) and undergraduate dissertation prize (15 July for 2025 degrees). Prize winners will recieve £100. Further details here: egrg.org/2025/04/09/e...
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just now back from a wonderful undergraduate field course exploring 'emotional geographies of the city' in Vienna and Bratislava. An absolute pleasure to get to 'do' geography with our second year students, and to hear their insights and reflections throughout the week! @newcastleuni.bsky.social
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A busy and colourful picket in warm spring sun @newcastleucu.bsky.social with lots of support from passers-by, all here to fight compulsory redundancies and wider threats to the university.
A bunch of Newcastle University staff, many in pink hats, picketing in the sun for UCU Newcastle.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Very much looking forward to our new MA Global Sustainable Futures starting in September, bringing core geography concepts (social justice, sustainability, power, etc) into conversation with debates about key global challenges - more info and how to apply here: www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Global Sustainable Futures MA
Develop the critical skills and knowledge needed to tackle global sustainability challenges. Learn how to create place-based solutions for a more sustainable future with our Global Sustainable Futures...
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Casey Lynch @casey-lynch.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and I are hoping to organize a session on the theme of 'Authoritarianism and the Geographies of AI' at this year's RGS-IBG (26-29 August 2025, Birmingham, UK). Please consider submitting! #geography #rgs
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
18(1) is OUT and it is a monster www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/1... Featuring contribs from @jessaloomis.bsky.social & @dcockayne.bsky.social; @stevethreadgold.bsky.social et al; many more we can't tag
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Journal of Cultural Economy
Volume 18, Issue 1 of Journal of Cultural Economy
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Are you thinking & writing about how geographers know and study the economy? The Economic Geography Research Group invites 'lightening talks' that think critically and creatively about the future of our subdiscipline. See our CFP for the 2025 RGS-IBG Conference below👇 egrg.org/2025/01/21/c...
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CFP RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025: Thinking creatively about futures for geographical research on the economy – Economic Geography Research Group
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Glad to see this work with Daniel Cockayne @dcockayne.bsky.social on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment technolgies and consumer fintech published in the newest volume of @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A feminist approach to fintech: exploring ‘buy now, pay later’ technologies and consumer fintech
‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) is a financial technology that is reshaping online consumption by allowing users to split payment for goods over 3–4 interest-free digital installments. While the use an...
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
REMINDER: The deadline to apply for the £500 EGRG travel award for the Global Conference on Economic Geography is TODAY, 6 January 2025. *The award is for an early career scholar (or someone on a fixed-term contract) who is currently based in the UK or received a degree from a UK university*
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Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Money flows like mercury - spatially & socially! 'Silicon Savannah' is often hailed as start-up success story. Scrutinizing the demographics of VC flows suggests a highly uneven social geography of start-up money. We offer some numbers & great visuals on this. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya
Motivated by the view that capital flows in the venture capital industry are not just mediated by meritocratic attributes of the founders but also by raced, gendered and classed social relations wi...
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Alex Tarr @avatarr8.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The wonderful editors at City asked me to write an editorial for the latest issue. Here is what I had to say about Cities, computation and capitalism: doi.org/10.1080/1360... (lots of wonderful work I didn't have space to cite, but I hope it furthers a broader conversation and action)
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Cities, computation and capitalism
Published in City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action (Vol. 28, No. 5-6, 2024)
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The Economic Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG just announced a £500 travel award for an early career and/or precariously employed scholar attending the Global Conference on Economic Geography in June 2025. Deadline 6 January. Details and application here: forms.office.com/e/Px5Eg1u6n4...
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Microsoft Forms
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Calling all social scientists whose work touches on offshore finance! Please submit your work to the special issue of the journal Socio-Economic Review that I'll be guest editing with my fellow sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang & historian Vanessa Ogle. Due date:15 May. academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We're looking for 4 new associate editors to join the editorial board of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. Application due soon, details below👇
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! 🙋 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
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Karen P.Y. Lai @karenpylai.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
📢 #GCEG2025 Call for Papers📢 Gordon Tan and I are organising a paper session on '#FinTech and Geographies of Everyday Life' at the 7th GCEG, 4-8 June 2025, Clark University. Please submit abstracts by 7 Jan 2025 and share with your networks 🙌 aag.secure-platform.com/gceg2025/sol...
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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sweden, the "model of a welfare state", employs a fraud prediction algorithm that discriminates against vulnerable groups. Another episode of welfare surveillance reported by @lhreports.bsky.social with @svenskadagbladet1.bsky.social www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...
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Sweden’s Suspicion Machine
Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
Thrilled to see this paper with @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social & Arjen van der Heide out in @econsocjournal.bsky.social! Will post a thread post carnival. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Most of the folks interviewed are in my department. But what the piece doesn’t reveal is that this reactionary regime of censorship is working hand-in-hand with an assault on shared governance, fully enabled by each respective campus administration. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
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Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 20/11/2024
This paper on the political economy of climate risk models—or, the huge market for climate data and risk analytics which influence major financial institutions—is so damn good. Crystal clear explainer with incisive critical analysis, by @madisoncondon.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Whoa neat job alert: The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) at Simon Fraser University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Critical Data Studies and Computational Social Science at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July 15, 2025.
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Careers
Career opportunities and job postings with Simon Fraser University (SFU) Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
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Andrea Binder @andreabinder.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🚨 JOB ALERT - Come work with me on #offshorefinance and #geopolitics!! There's a #postdoc opening in my Freigeist Research Group at Freie Universität #Berlin. 100%, 2 years. 🗓 Deadline: 16.12.2024 Details: lnkd.in/ee5_MWpp P.S. Sharing is caring 🎁 www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
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PS-PostDoc-FreigeistFG-2024
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Lauren Gifford 🌱🌎🌲 @laurengifford.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Our paper "Defining climate finance justice" is out now, open access. @laurla11.bsky.social agsci.source.colostate.edu/research-pap...
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New research paper explores concept of climate finance justice
CSU's Lauren Gifford is the lead author on a new paper examining the emerging field of climate finance justice.
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
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Ideational geographies workshop
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
📢Join the TIBG team!📢 We are looking for four new mid-career geographers to join our Editorial Board. We are seeking expertise in environmental, historical and quantitative geography, sustainable development, geopolitics, Africa & Latin America. Deadline: 4 December www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
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Editorial opportunities at Society journal - RGS
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, one of the Society’s scholarly journals, is looking for four new Editorial Board members.
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Tom Pollard @pollardtom.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
I'm hiring a senior economist for the @neweconomics.bsky.social social policy team to lead our work on social security & work Looking for someone with great quantitative skills, subject knowledge & influencing savvy 💷 £52k pa for a 32hr week 📅 Apply by 25 November neweconomics.org/about/work-w...
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Senior economist
Together we can change the rules to protect the planet, share the wealth and give everyone a say in how the economy is run.
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Area was founded in 1969 as a bulletin for the Institute of British Geographers (IBG) - here's an interesting opportunity for a funded PhD looking into Geography's disciplinary history through the IBG conferences ⬇️
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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
The core of this is an underappreciated point: unity is the outcome of, not the precondition for, a political programme to improve lives. The New Deal coalition resulted from the New Deal, it didn't cause it. Solidarity arises from working together, not from everyone reading from the correct hymnal.
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